ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,404, issued on March 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Frequency prioritization for terminal devices receiving a multicast broadcast service" was invented by Ugur Baran Elmali (Munich), Horst Thomas Belling (Munich), Philippe Godin (Massy, France) and Bighnaraj Panigrahi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus configured to perform the following. The apparatus receives a service announcement of a multicast broadcast service. The apparatus receives, in the service announcement and/or in at least one message following the service announcement, at ...